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Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Noah Kin (Exploited Body).

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When My Darkness Came To Light

Exploited Body - Can't Wear My Skin

APEAK - After The Rains

A storm has washed over the city, the wet asphalt reflecting the inauspicious red sky. The time has come; to leave the towering city landmarks behind, to shed the skin of a past life, to be reborn in a high octane amniotic fluid.

'After The Rains' is the spiritual successor to APEAK's 2020 Changeless debut 'Grey Skies', which sees him working with vocalists again while expanding his sonic palette further. Following the foreboding opener 'Where We Are From, The Birds Are Dead', we are lulled by the seraphic voice of Helsinki-based real-life angel queendyster on 'See The Light'. The anthemic rumblings of 'Graze' cascade into the cavernous echoes of 'M-Way', which features the London-based Felix Lee on vocals. Closing the record off is 'Clocktowers' with it's blaring synths and noisy elements scurrying atop the monumental bass tones.

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After The Rains

APEAK - Where We Are From, The Birds Are Dead

111X ‘Urge’

111X, the elusive prince of noise, returns to Changeless with his latest offering ‘Urge’.

Picking up where ’Shame’ left off, ‘Urge’ depicts the shift from collapse to confrontation, driven by the restless push-and-pull of one’s inner fire and crushing powerlessness. Compulsive resistance in the face of our inevitable fallibility. An ouroboros corporeal battle between necessity and yielding, vigour and weakness, progress and decay.

‘Urge’ is a reinvention of 111X’s signature harsh sonics, meshing it with brooding apocalyptic guitars and ephemeral fragile tranquility, with a familiar relentless weaving pulse at it’s core that’s all the more brutal with each return. The EP opens with ‘Avenge’, where the veil of monumental thrashing of fragmented rhythms slips for a brief moment that’s just long enough to catch a glimpse of the hurt behind it all. ‘Fragments Held Together By Pressure (Forgive)’ slows everything down to a halt, while soft melodies bleed through the noise like a memory echoing as it fades away, becoming more indistinct with every moment.

The EP’s turning point ‘Serrated Edge’ presents us with a completely new side of 111X; a meditative lullaby with bursts of noise that emerge throughout the track, meticulously designed to remain uneasy even in the softest moments. ‘Hunger / Wilt’ closes the record with it’s pounding drums and piercing feedback, before melting into a stunningly beautiful coda leaving us with more hope than when we had diving into ‘Urge’.

'Urge' will be released May 23rd via Changeless. 

Written, produced and mixed by 111X.
Mastered by Nori Kin.

Artwork by Helen Korpak.

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111X - Avenge

Safety Model - Hymnal

We’re very excited to unveil our latest signing Safety Model and their debut EP Hymnal!

“The red pours from the blue, as we remain luminous, forever scorching under the light.”

‘Hymnal’ is a series of hymns, simultaneously heavy but weightless, empty yet filled with light, each carrying its distinct sensory color. Dedicated to friends and the self, and guided by four meditative but disconcerting pieces, Safety Model takes us on a journey through the kaleidoscopic gauge of existence as life’s forces press, lift, and shake the body and mind.

The EP opens with ‘Point Blank’, closest in proximity to one’s truest essence. Enveloping sounds lull you into their embrace as brittle mechanical textures weave in and out, provoking the senses into fight or flight. Capturing the moment of waking to the self, magnifying the friction between shock and surrender, between fight and acquiescence, the body registers that which cannot be registered. Loss of memories, of love, of life, of self. Point Blank is represented by the color yellow.

‘Feathers (City)’ is the sonic incarnate of colossal yet fragile brutalist spaces; dusty basements that collapse into expansive cityscapes, perpetually decomposing and reassembling through the hymn’s aural extremes. Grounded, heavy textures are interwoven with waves of gauzy synths like wings; harshness and violence meet subtle femininity, reflecting the tension of the inescapable sensory burden of urban life. ‘Feathers (City)’ is represented by the color red.

‘Where The Lights Don’t Fall, They Press Down Instead’ is the moment of light intruding on the inner self, when even closed eyelids cannot shield the soul. A forced reflection, abstraction as touch, emulating the sense of brightness pressing down. An intimate ballad with operatic falsetto vocals accompanied by levitating resonances of rusted tone, offering a glimpse into the future of Safety Model. Where The Lights Don’t Fall, They Press Down Instead is represented by the color green.

‘Fall Of Self’ is the final acceptance: the scattered memories don’t and won’t matter. With its stretched strings ringing for an indiscernible duration, suspending time through a seemingly endless crescendo, ‘Fall Of Self’ serves as the temporal counterpart to ‘Point Blank’. A hymn to safety, endurance, and reflection. ‘Fall Of Self ‘is represented by the color blue.

‘Hymnal’ will be released October 3rd via Changeless.

Written, produced, and mixed by Safety Model.
Mastered by Nori Kin.
Artwork by Safety Model.

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Safety Model - Where Lights Don't Fall, They Press Down Instead

“The red pours from the blue, as we remain luminous, forever scorching under the light.”

‘Hymnal’ is a series of hymns, simultaneously heavy but weightless, empty yet filled with light, each carrying its distinct sensory color. Dedicated to friends and the self, and guided by four meditative but disconcerting pieces, Safety Model takes us on a journey through the kaleidoscopic gauge of existence as life’s forces press, lift, and shake the body and mind.

The EP opens with ‘Point Blank’, closest in proximity to one’s truest essence. Enveloping sounds lull you into their embrace as brittle mechanical textures weave in and out, provoking the senses into fight or flight. Capturing the moment of waking to the self, magnifying the friction between shock and surrender, between fight and acquiescence, the body registers that which cannot be registered. Loss of memories, of love, of life, of self. Point Blank is represented by the color yellow.

‘Feathers (City)’ is the sonic incarnate of colossal yet fragile brutalist spaces; dusty basements that collapse into expansive cityscapes, perpetually decomposing and reassembling through the hymn’s aural extremes. Grounded, heavy textures are interwoven with waves of gauzy synths like wings; harshness and violence meet subtle femininity, reflecting the tension of the inescapable sensory burden of urban life. ‘Feathers (City)’ is represented by the color red.

‘Where The Lights Don’t Fall, They Press Down Instead’ is the moment of light intruding on the inner self, when even closed eyelids cannot shield the soul. A forced reflection, abstraction as touch, emulating the sense of brightness pressing down. An intimate ballad with operatic falsetto vocals accompanied by levitating resonances of rusted tone, offering a glimpse into the future of Safety Model. 'Where The Lights Don’t Fall, They Press Down Instead' is represented by the color green.

‘Fall Of Self’ is the final acceptance: the scattered memories don’t and won’t matter. With its stretched strings ringing for an indiscernible duration, suspending time through a seemingly endless crescendo, ‘Fall Of Self’ serves as the temporal counterpart to ‘Point Blank’. A hymn to safety, endurance, and reflection. ‘Fall Of Self ‘is represented by the color blue.

‘Hymnal’ will be released October 3rd via Changeless, alongside a limited edition photobook and cassettes. 

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Safety Model - Point Blank

Safety Model -  Fall Of Self

Safety Model - Feathers (City)

111X & DJ HEROIN - STILLNESS

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111X & DJ HEROIN - STILLNESS

Exploited Body - Touching Without Feeling 

A cry for intimacy in a time where physical connection is lost. 

Embrace is the first taste of Helsinki-based artist Exploited Body's third EP "Touching Without Feeling”, which reveals a more somber and brooding aesthetic for the artist. The ominous presence of Exploited Body’s signature blistered distortion manifests as a physical entity, while his murmured vocals call to be touched like an apparition that can be felt prominently throughout the record. 

Released September 27th.

Buy 'Touching Without Feeling':
https://changeless.bandcamp.com/album/touching-without-feeling

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Touching Without Feeling

Exploited Body - Embrace

Exploited Body - Touching Without Feeling

A cry for intimacy in a time where physical connection is lost.

"Touching Without Feeling”, the third EP by Helsinki-based artist Exploited Body, reveals a more somber and brooding aesthetic for the artist. The ominous presence of Exploited Body’s signature blistered distortion manifests as a physical entity, while his murmured vocals call to be touched like an apparition that can be felt prominently throughout the record.

Written, produced, mixed & mastered by Exploited Body.
Artwork by Exploited Body.

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Exploited Body - Phantom Pain

Exploited Body - Hypoesthesia

Nothing Remains

Helsinki • Est. 2019

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